# Hi Class.
 
Your goal is to classify two bacteria based on their DNA sequences. See Rules tab for guidelines, grading, submission details, and the starter Colab notebook. This private in-class competition is strictly for HSE students, Fall 2021. You are encouraged to learn from other competitions in Kaggle or elsewhere, but keep your modeling constrained by rules of this competition.


## Acknowledgements
1. We thank TensorFlow team for making [Genomics_ood dataset](https://www.tensorflow.org/datasets/catalog/genomics_ood) available.
1. Illustration is from https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/acgt
1. **Competition Authors**: [Oleg Melnikov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/olegmelnikov/), [Alexey Boldyrev](https://www.hse.ru/org/persons/223985242), [Vladimir Kirillin](https://www.hse.ru/org/persons/499313273), [Sergey Chervontsev](https://www.hse.ru/org/persons/305134539), [Maria Tikhonova](https://www.hse.ru/org/persons/218372994), Mikhail Makarov, [Daniil Vankov](https://www.hse.ru/org/persons/137289166), Margarita Lazareva, Tatyana Yazykova, Mike Ovyan, Lika Lomidze, Vladimir Novikov, Valeriya Rogovchenko